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Donald Trump wants us to accept the current state of affairs without making a scene. He wants us to believe that if we resist, he will harass us, sue us, and cut funding for those we care about; he may sic ICE, the FBI, or the National Guard on us.  We’re sorry to disappoint, but the fact is this: The Nation won’t back down to an authoritarian regime. Not now, not ever. Day after day, week after week, we will continue to publish truly independent journalism that exposes the Trump administration for what it is and develops ways to gum…

A search was continuing Thursday for the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University. Kirk, a prominent conservative activist who co-founded the right-wing advocacy group Turning Point USA, was 31.Authorities have not yet identified or apprehended a suspect nor specified a motive, but on Thursday officials revealed new details about the shooter’s movements, a weapon that was recovered and the investigation.Officials took two people into custody in the wake of the shooting but later said neither was tied to the shooting and both were released.Here is what we know so far about the ongoing…

Washington — House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the legal justifications used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003, the latest attempt by Congress to revoke the president’s authority to wage war. The move follows President Trump’s decisions to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities and strike a boat allegedly carrying illicit drugs in the Caribbean. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have long questioned leaving the authorizations in place, arguing it allows presidents to abuse their power. The House adopted the measure in a 261 to 167 vote. It was supported by 212 Democrats and 49 Republicans. The bipartisan amendment is linked to…

FBI Director Kash Patel delivers remarks as President Trump looks on during a White House press conference in August 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Trump administration launched a “campaign of retribution” against senior Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who refused to demonstrate loyalty to President Trump, firing them last month for improper political reasons before they could collect early retirement benefits, according to a new lawsuit from three senior FBI agents. The lawsuit describes leaders inside the FBI and Justice Department as both partisan and inept — struggling to please the White House…

More than 300 South Korean nationals detained by federal agents in a massive immigration raid last week on a Hyundai plant in Georgia for alleged visa violations were released early Thursday and were being taken to Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson airport for a charter flight back to their country.The South Korean workers were among some 475 people detained on Sept. 4 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a still-under construction joint Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery facility near Savannah. ICE said they were suspected of living and working in the U.S. illegally.CBS News photographer Darrall Johnson watched as the Koreans boarded eight…

Society / September 10, 2025 Trump is threatening to occupy Chicago while the Cubs are feting the far right. Ad Policy The sun sets over Wrigley Field during a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers.(Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images) In 1914, Carl Sandburg famously called Chicago “the City of Big Shoulders.” The poet wrote, “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.” More than a century later, Chicago is living under the threat of military invasion by its own country, but Sandburg’s city remains…

Washington — Former Vice President Kamala Harris writes that former President Joe Biden’s decision to run again was a choice that shouldn’t have “been left to an individuals’ ego, an individual’s ambition,” according to excerpts of her upcoming book, “107 Days,” published Wednesday in The Atlantic. Harris, who suddenly became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in July 2024 when Biden dropped out of the race with 107 days until Election Day, criticized the “recklessness” of leaving that decision to the former president and first lady alone. “‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d…

Three senior FBI officials who were abruptly fired last month by Kash Patel, the FBI director, are claiming in a new lawsuit against the Trump administration that they were illegally terminated at the direction of the White House for purely political reasons. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, alleges Patel told one of the agents that his job as FBI director depended on firing agents involved in past investigations of President Trump.Patel allegedly said “he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on…

Well-wishers pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the national headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix after the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the organization, during a Utah college event Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP President Trump condemned the left and the media for “demonizing” those they disagree with in a video message from the Oval Office after his close ally Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah college campus event on Wednesday. Trump praised Kirk, who he has credited for helping…

A witness who saw the moment Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday said the conservative activist had just begun debating someone about mass shootings and gun violence when the gunshot struck the 31-year-old in the neck.Raydon DeChene told CBS News she was among the crowd at Kirk’s event at Utah Valley University, standing near the Turning Point USA co-founder’s “Prove Me Wrong” outdoor tent, where he invites students to challenge his political and cultural views.”I was right up front,” DeChene said, who noted Kirk was, “ironically,” talking about gun control before he was shot.Suddenly, DeChene said she saw Kirk…